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    Like the others here, I have mixed feelings about your request. On the one hand, I feel that the more honest, thoughtful, well-written portrayals of dancers and other sex industry workers there are out there, the better. On the other hand, I share the knee-jerk, territorial response of many: Don't try to portray it if you haven't lived it, you're sure to get it wrong. Truth be told, there are many, many women in the industry who are excellent and ambitious writers/artists/filmakers etc, and I feel that, out of respect, you should back off and let them tell their own tales. Iguess that is what bothers me: that you seem to be making some assumption that the women in the industry, the ones who know it inside and out, are incapable of telling their own stories. On the other hand, dancer stories do tend to be fascinating, and if you DID succeed in writing the book, I would probably buy it....However, I will warn you that I think it's a very difficult subject to write about, regardless of your involvement (or lack thereof) in the industry. So far, I'd say that Lily Burana has done the best job of portraying this multi-faceted industry, in Strip City. However, if you want to read the PhD. dissertation of a woman who did in fact work in the industry and publish her thesis as a book, check out "G-Strings and Sympathy." I can't remember the name of the author, but you can probably find it on Amazon. She focused more on the patrons but it was quite scholarly. Do you have much writing and/or publishing experience? Have you pitched the book idea to anyone? You will probably need a more interesting angle, but I don't know. Have you read many books by women in the industry? I can give you more references if you like...
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    Like others, I think it would be more intersting if you started dancing and perhaps write about the process of getting your job and what you go through and learn as a new dancer. I wrote a paper in a sociology class about my job at the time that I got actually so I'd have a job to write a paper about it (we had to write something about our job or some human interaction setting and I didn't have one) and I got a job at a tanning salon. I explained getting the job and about the customers and why I ended up hating the job and it turned out to be a really good paper. I guess this is on a smaller scale than writing a book, but if you put more personal experience into it it might be more interesting.

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    I have a few issues with what you said. One is that you stated you were interested in writing this so that you could get into a good program for a PhD but yet you haven't even taken your GRE for a master's program. I think you are getting ahead of yourself since you just have a regular college degree. I mean, do you consider yourself qualified to write an indepth psychological/social book on stripping? Aside from that and your motivation to do this...

    The second thing that bothers me is that you said you were interested in showing feminist strippers and such. Um, you are aware of the vast amount of writting already available on sex work (inlcuding stripping) as an expression of feminism, aren't you? Most of it's crap but some of it has some decent theories. It's been done several times over and perhaps you may not want to add to the list unless you actually have something meaningful to contribute. This is assuming that you could even get it published considering that genre is already saturated.

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    I don't think you HAVE to experience something to write about it, especially if you don't mind being a dilettante. Given the tone+impersonal fascination+predetermined agenda of your original post, you may get some people titalated, but most dancers will just think you're full of sh*t.
    Why don't you write about the peculiar fascination young academic women's lit/psych majors have with women in the sex industry? You know, consider exposing yourself before you rush out to expose others?
    Sorry to be a b*tch, but that's how I feel.

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    Guess she hasn't read the other 50 posts from people "writing books." WE ARE NOT LAB RATS

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    Touche, dancerlala...LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by dancerlala
    Why don't you write about the peculiar fascination young academic women's lit/psych majors have with women in the sex industry? You know, consider exposing yourself before you rush out to expose others?
    Sorry to be a b*tch, but that's how I feel.

    Oops, I should have included this quote in last post....really it's a good suggestion!

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